Melvyn Bragg In Our Time Podcasts & Audiobooks

Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.

The history of ideas discussed by Melvyn Bragg and guests including Philosophy, science, literature, religion and the influence these ideas have on us today.

From Altruism to Wittgenstein, philosophers, theories and key themes.

Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.

Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.

Discussion of religious movements and the theories and individuals behind them.

The Adventure of English is a British television series (ITV) on the history of the English language presented by Melvyn Bragg as well as a companion book, also written by Bragg. The series ran in 2003.

From 2008: Gore Vidal in conversation with Melvyn Bragg. Filmed at the Royal Geographical Society.

Melvyn Bragg examines new coinages, puns and wordplay; how accents and social class are entwined; swear words; attempts to stop the evolution of language in its tracks; and, finally, the many varieties of English that are spoken around the world today.

This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language....